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Posted by Dick on July 2, 2007, 9:15 am
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>> Hi I'm planning to start an aquarium with a small variety of corydoras. I
>> was planning on putting 5 of them together in a 12 gallon aquarium. I
>> haven't purchased anything for the tank yet so any advice on aquarium
>> furniture (I was thinking aquarium wood) and appropriate live plants would
>> be great. Would guppies be a good tankmate for them? If not what would be a
>> good choice? I would like to avoid neon tetras or zebra danios as I already
>> have another tank with those types of fish. As I'm sure you can tell from
>> this post I'm pretty green when it comes to home aquaria so I would like to
>> avoid any highly demanding plants or fish. Thanks for any advice!
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>Hi there.
>
>A 12g tank isn't going to be a lot of room for many of the Cory types.
>However, there are dwarf varieties and smaller types to choose from.
>Panda cories stay pretty small. The males don't get much over an inch
>and half long, I'd say. The females are a little larger, but you'd do
>fine with 5 Pandas (mostly males).
Neither of my species (Emerald and ?) are over an inch.
>Local shops can usually order certain things that they may not always
>carry, such as Pigmy Cories.
>These little guys are the cutest Cory of all (IMO). They stay very
>small (maybe an inch long), school like a group of neons and they
>often hover in a group, in mid water level. They're not your average
>Cory.
>They also have the cutest little faces. You could actually have a good
>sized school of them in a 12g.
>They'd need plants to perch on though. Again, these little Cories
>don't act like the typical Cory cats. They like top perch on plants
>too.
>= )~
I have never seen my Corys perch on plants. Too bad for me, I would
get to see them once in a while. Just the 2 in one of the ten gallon
tanks are out front, often zooming from side to side, up and back
down.
They are good bottom cleaners, for sure.
>Do a search on them if you've never seen them.
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>was planning on putting 5 of them together in a 12 gallon aquarium. I
>haven't purchased anything for the tank yet so any advice on aquarium
>furniture (I was thinking aquarium wood) and appropriate live plants would
>be great. Would guppies be a good tankmate for them? If not what would be a
>good choice? I would like to avoid neon tetras or zebra danios as I already
>have another tank with those types of fish. As I'm sure you can tell from
>this post I'm pretty green when it comes to home aquaria so I would like to
>avoid any highly demanding plants or fish. Thanks for any advice!
>